worldneweconomyМир новой экономикиThe world of new economy2220-64692220-7872Financial University under The Governtment оf The Russian Federation10.26794/2220-6469-2026-20-3-15-22worldneweconomy-674Research ArticleМИРОВАЯ ЭКОНОМИКАWORLD ECONOMYВидение зарубежными экспертами антироссийской санкционной политикиAnti-Russian Sanctions Policy: Foreign Experts InsightsПерскаяВ. В.PerskayaV. V.

Виктория Вадимовна Перская — доктор экономических наук, профессор, директор Института исследований международных экономических отношений

Москва

Victoria V. Perskaya — Dr. Sci. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the Institute for Research of International Economic Relations

Moscow

Финансовый университет при Правительстве Российской ФедерацииРоссияFinancial University under the Government of the Russian FederationRussian Federation2026210920262031522Copyright © Перская В.В., 20262026Перская В.В.Perskaya V.V.Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.https://wne.fa.ru/jour/article/view/674

Предмет. Статья посвящена вопросам мотивации и оценки результативности массированных санкций против России с позиции зарубежных аналитиков. Автором проведен анализ правового обоснования санкционной политики развитых стран. Цель работы — дать представление о мотивах вводимых санкций и отношении экспертного аналитического сообщества и результативности подобной политики. Методы, используемые при написании работы, включают: синтез исследуемого массива информации, абстрагирование, индукцию, дедукцию, а также системный подход к анализу социально-экономических проблем. В заключение сделаны выводы о том, что санкции превращаются в инструмент внешней политики в масштабах мировой экономики, что поддерживается, в том числе по линии международных организаций.

Relevance. This article is devoted to the issues of motivation and assessment of the effectiveness of the introduction of large-scale sanctions against Russia from the viewpoint of foreign analytical centers and experts. The author offers her analytic study of the legal justification for the sanctions policy provided by developed countries. The objective of this research is to present an understanding of the motives behind the sanctions imposed, the attitudes of the expert analytical community, and the effectiveness of such policies. The methods of the analytic research include synthesis of the studied data set, abstraction, induction, deduction, and a systemic approach to analysing socioeconomic problems. The conclusion states that sanctions policy has become a foreign policy instrument on a global economic scale, supported, among other things, by international organisations.

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